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Tory hostility to EU extradition law 'risks new Costa del Crime'

Source: The Guardian

Nov 08, 2009

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David Cameron's concern over loss of sovereignty has led opponents to accuse him of endangering public safety by questioning the European arrest warrants that fast-track extradition requests

The Tories are to consider pulling out of the EU's fast-track extradition scheme, which helped bring failed London bomber Hussain Osman to justice, as part of their battle to resist further transfer of sovereignty to Brussels.

Such a move would please the party's Eurosceptics, after David Cameron denied them a referendum on the Lisbon treaty last week, but alarm police chiefs and law enforcement agencies, who believe the European arrest warrant is vital to tackling domestic and cross-border crime.

Chris Grayling, the shadow home secretary, said he had not made a final decision about whether a Tory government would take part in the arrest warrant scheme when it is brought under full EU control, but would judge all issues affecting justice and home affairs "on their merits" and according to the "national interest". However, he made clear that the Tories would not want to see

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